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First Posted: 6/12/2011
Mary Butera Aquilina, 99, of New Hope, died June 3, 2011, at Doylestown Hospital following a stroke.
She was born on the Lower East side of Manhattan, where she grew up and attended school. Mary was a daughter of the late Maria and Cataldo Butera. The family moved to Pittston, and she continued her schooling through the seventh grade, but left to help her parents in their grocery store. In 1930, she married Patsy Aquilina. He died in 1994.
She was also preceded in death by her daughter Pauline Fitzgerald and grandson Michael Jr.
She is survived by her daughters Maria Aquilina-Walsh and son-in-law, Robert, New Hope; Patricia Crawford and son-in-law Ted, Cincinnatus, NY; son, Michael, and daughter-in-law Ann Marie, Mountain Top; and sister, Nina; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held June 8 in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery Chapel, Carverton. Arrangements by the Metcalfe and Shaver Funeral Home, Wyoming.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Doylestown Hospital Hospice, 595 W. State St., Doylestown, 18901.